Transforming Crime-Based Deportation
Transforming Crime-Based Deportation (Daniel I. Morales, New York University Law Review, 92 (3), 2017. Why not rid the United States of criminal noncitizens and the disorder they cause? Because, scholars urge, immigrants reduce crime rates, deporting noncitizens with criminal convictions costs far more than it is worth, and discarding immigrants when they become inconvenient is wrong. Despite the force of these responses, reform efforts have made little headway. Crime-based deportation appears entrenched. Can it be transformed, rather than modified at the Read More